Breezometer

JUNE 7, 2022

Understanding Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas Emissions. The greenhouse effect is a popular name for the earth’s warming effect which occurs naturally when gasses in the atmosphere trap heat from the sun and prevent it from escaping back into space. Greenhouse Gas Emissions are Increasing. C according to projections.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The focus was clear: climate action, transitioning to cleaner energy, advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and preparing for COP28 (the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference). The plea from climate-vulnerable nations to phase out fossil fuels echoed throughout the United Nations corridors and beyond.

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Clean Energy Law

DECEMBER 12, 2023

For example, maritime vessels typically struggle to meet existing “green” thresholds as zero or low-carbon fuels are still in their early stages of development. Accordingly, the Taxonomy accounts for maritime vessels that are aligned with the International Maritime Organisation’s 2023 strategy for greenhouse gas reduction.

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Our Environment

MAY 21, 2021

With the effects of Climate Change an imminent threat to the world and with cities contributing to more than 60% of Global Greenhouse Gas emissions (United Nations, 2021), future cities will also need to secure sustainable development. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to stay within 1.5-degree

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

General Assembly and a collection of high-level climate and environment events, including the Sustainable Development Goals Summit , 18-19 Sept, and the Climate Ambition Summit , 20 Sept. The Climate Overshoot Commission recently completed its work, releasing its report at the United Nations last Thursday, September 14.

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A Greener Life

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Bangladesh and Pakistan have promised significant reductions in their carbon emissions, but both countries continue to invest in and rely on fossil fuel infrastructure, particularly coal and gas. What we need at [this year’s] COP is action plans to rapidly cut greenhouse emissions and finance to adapt to climatic hazards.”.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

That means we’ll need to quickly add additional clean energy policies and policies to phase out fossil fuels just to meet our 2030 goals. c) of the Paris Agreement calls for “ Making finance flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development.” Article 2.1(c)

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Ocean Conservancy

JULY 21, 2022

Thousands of people from around the world gathered in Lisbon, Portugal, to discuss the biggest challenges facing our ocean and how best to work together to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water. Promoting Ocean Conservancy’s Global Ghost Gear Initiative ® (GGGI). Reducing Shipping Emissions Around the Globe.

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A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

Especially on things like fossil fuels exclusion policies, net-zero targets, and long-term scenario analysis for their portfolio.”? . There has been “very little movement” on most of the 10 criteria the study assessed, says Ashish Fernandes, CEO at Climate Risk Horizons and an author of the study. But time is running out.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

In a nutshell, the European Commission acknowledges that the transition towards a climate-neutral economy will have economic and social impacts, especially on regions that rely on fossil fuels extraction and treatment (e.g. refineries) or on highly carbon-intensive industries (such as cement plants or smelters).

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Law Columbia

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Unfortunately, however, the region is also highly vulnerable to the damaging effects of the climate crisis, despite not being significant emitters of greenhouse gasses. Corruption is a widespread and deeply rooted phenomenon, especially in multimillion-dollar industries such as fossil fuels and extractivism.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 14, 2024

Emissions of methane, which makes up more than 80 percent of fracked gas and is a potent greenhouse gas, need to be held to the absolute minimum. Furthermore, those standards must be significantly more broad than the selected pollutants touted in this study.

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Frontiers

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

It must be the meeting when we start really showing credible pathways to phase out fossil fuels.” Massamba Thioye , executive of the UNFCCC, captured these key areas when he said: “We will not be able to address the challenge of climate and sustainability if we do not do something with our inner development goal.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 6, 2024

Statement by Emilia Belliveau, Energy Transition Program Manager Ottawa | Traditional, unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg People – At today’s Parliamentary Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI), Members of Parliament grilled the fossil fuel industry about their climate pollution.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 19, 2024

Recently, CEOs from five of the biggest oil and gas companies in Canada were called to parliament to testify about their failure to bring greenhouse gas emissions down, despite billions of dollars in annual profits. This tactic is used to justify continued fossil fuel production and expansion and to delay meaningful climate progress.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 14, 2023

CAFOs — specifically their large manure lagoons — are also a huge source of methane , a potent greenhouse gas, as well as ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and particulate matter, 3 all of which pose risks to human health. Sustainable Development of Water Resources. 4 This report builds on Payments for Pollution in two important ways.

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Global Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Michael Moore’s last movie, Planet of the Humans , questions the reliability, affordability and sustainability of renewable energy. The thought-provoking film also highlights the renewables’ dependence on fossil fuels. Sadly, as reported in this study , the amount of greenhouse gases (GHGs) released by 267 artificial (i.e.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

For example, the ongoing debate over the impact of certain pesticides in agriculture , greenhouse gas emissions are often a battle between the science and industry's attempts to muddy the science and government lobbying to roll back legislation (2). Typically used in conjunction with “greenhouse gas” but some emissions are not GHGs.

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Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

And while greenhouse gas emissions may dip this year because of lockdowns, we should not celebrate. These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. degrees centigrade above pre-industrial levels.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 28, 2022

In 2017, the House Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development recommended strengthening CEPA. When we need to act to prevent environmental harms, such as reducing greenhouse gas emissions or banning plastics, it’s done under this act.

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Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

We know we must now work to both cut greenhouse gas emissions to reduce the severity of climate change and at the same time work to adapt to the impacts we can no longer avoid. This was the seed of what the UN would christen “sustainable development.” To be sure, there is much that Gleick and I agree upon. “We

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fossil fuel subsidies could be ratcheted down. Even as the global poverty rate rose for the first time in two decades and more people in developing countries were thrust into poverty, utilities proved more resilient than expected. s Sustainable Development Goals for drinking water, sanitation, and water management slowed. .

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 13, 2024

Ecojustice, Greenpeace Canada, Stand.earth, Environmental Defence Canada, Keepers of the Water, Leadnow, For Our Kids, and Change Course call on the five major Canadian banks to take responsibility for the impact of their investments in fossil fuels, which are exacerbating the climate crisis.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In the absence of a global political consensus on phasing out coal and other industrial activities with high greenhouse gas emissions, the private sector has an increasingly important role in climate change mitigation. Nations are unlikely to adopt aggressive climate change if they feel other nations are cheating and emitting fossil fuels.

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Law Columbia

JUNE 8, 2021

In Baltimore’s Climate Case Against Fossil Fuel Companies, Supreme Court Held that Appellate Review of Remand Order Extends to All Grounds for Removal. The fossil fuel companies removed the case in March 2021, citing five grounds for removal, including the federal officer removal statute. In a 7-1 decision, the U.S.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

At the start of the recent COP 27 climate meeting in Egypt, a United Nations report on the role of financial institutions in controlling climate change said, “There is no room for new investment in fossil fuel supply.”. With COP 27 now concluded, fossil fuel investment remains the elephant in the room.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

17 [PaEN] -- ScrantonT: Lackawanna River Heritage Trail Receives Great Greenway/Trail Designation -- SunburyDI: Friends Group Formed For R.B. Wolf, AG Shapiro To Support A Total Ban On Road Dumping Of Oil & Gas Drilling Wastewater; 240.4

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Law Columbia

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

International law, which is based on sound scientific evidence , clearly establishes the pressing need for effective mitigation of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. After all, to achieve the main goal of the Paris Agreement , namely keeping the rising global average temperature below 2°C (35.6°F) Hope may come with the World Cup in Qatar.

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ESA

DECEMBER 5, 2022

National Committee for the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. More News: NASA cancels greenhouse gas monitoring satellite due to cost – Associated Press. Elect Wes Moore to Roll Back State Funding for Fossil Fuel Industry – Inside Climate News. Scientific Community. Federal Register opportunities.

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ESA

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

EPA to cut greenhouse gases thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide – Washington Post. WHO slashes guideline limits on air pollution from fossil fuels – The Guardian. The first briefing is titled Creating Policies, Coalitions, and Actions for Global Sustainable Development and will take place Oct.

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